ABSTRACT
We have reported a case of mastoiditis which progressed to meningitis in a 16-year old male patient. CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) anaerobic culture revealed four species of isolated anaerobic bacteria. This is the first case in the literature in which a patient survived childhood polymicrobial anaerobic meningitis diagnosed by MALDI-TOF MS (Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization - Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry).
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Bacteria, Anaerobic/classification , Bacteria, Anaerobic/isolation & purification , Coinfection/diagnosis , Coinfection/pathology , Mastoiditis/complications , Meningitis, Bacterial/diagnosis , Meningitis, Bacterial/pathology , Adolescent , Bacteriological Techniques , Cerebrospinal Fluid/microbiology , Coinfection/microbiology , Humans , Male , Meningitis, Bacterial/microbiology , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationABSTRACT
The strictly anaerobic Gram-negative bacteria Butyricimonas species have recently been described in human faeces and have to our knowledge not been isolated in infectious clinical materials. We report the first case of Butyricimonas virosa bacteraemia in a 72-year-old man with colon adenocarcinoma, who underwent aortic aneurysm replacement surgery.